Global engineering technologies
company,
Renishaw has
received a Queen’s
Award for Enterprise
2011 in the Innovations
category, the company’s
fourteenth Queen’s Award
since its formation in 1973,
and its fifth in just eight
years. This Award has been
granted for the development of the
TRS2 laser-based non-contact broken
tool detection system, which is used
for detecting broken or missing
cutting tools on computer
numerically controlled (CNC)
machining centres.

The TRS2 broken tool detection
system is widely used within
machining operations in the
automotive and consumer
electronics sector. In contrast with
previous systems, the TRS2, which
incorporates a laser transmitter and
receiver in a single
housing, is
positioned on only
one side of a
cutting tool to
analyse reflected
light patterns and thus
determine tool
condition.